Yeah I've blown the stack more times than I can recall when using non-tail recursion. I do enjoy recursion, it seems like a clean and elegant solution, though I

Yeah I've blown the stack more times than I can recall when using non-tail recursion. I do enjoy recursion, it seems like a clean and elegant solution, though I'm ridiculously preoccupied with writing non idiomatic code. Pascal Costanza has an interesting opinion[1] on why TCO wasn't included in the ANSI standard. [1]http://www.p-cos.net/lisp/guide.html http://www.p-cos.net/lisp/guide.html